So a stealth takeover, if that's what Nasdaq intends, will be slow in coming.
Like the European Union, the US system doesn't just happen to be slow in finding solutions.
However, convergence towards common standards of middleware appears to be slow in the academic world.
But since women are struggling to gain top jobs in companies, unless the underlying inequities are addressed by law firms, change will be slow in coming.
Some countries are combating this by mandating that men take leave, and without that action the shift toward husbands taking leave along with their wives may be slow in coming.
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Annual wage growth will be slow in the first half of the coming decade and will then pick up to 3% in the latter years, according to John Philpott, chief economist at the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.
Since the firm's handset business also tends to be slow early in the year, Sanjay Jha, its boss, expects a loss in the first quarter.
Walt "Clyde" Frazier, Willis Reed and Phil Jackson, players on the 1973 Knicks championship team, would be too slow in their positions to help any NBA team win a championship in 1993.
Magic Johnson in his prime would be too slow to play point guard in today's locomotive landscape, just as Larry Bird would be too slow to guard any of today's elite small forwards.
Could be declining demand overall, could just be a slow down in rising demand.
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Down in the area Katrina hit, more than 100, 000 travel trailers have been ordered to shelter displaced residents of the region, but those trailers seem to be moving in slow motion.
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But he added there should be no slow down in its implementation as it was "fundamental to the modernisation of the NHS, providing a potentially powerful set of incentives and underpinning patient choice".
Progress may be slow--measured in inches and feet, not miles--but we will progress.
Moreover, picking can be painstakingly slow, taking in some cases up to two months, 10 times more than for dry table wine.
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But another part can be attributed to the slow-down in the US and most of Europe that seems to be getting worse rather than better.
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This year, though, earnings could actually be hit by increased promotion and he warns the increase in share price could be slow.
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Inflation tends to be higher in fast-growing emerging economies than in slow-growing rich ones.
For Joplin, the newest New Normal was the reality it would be stuck in the very slow process of rebuilding an obliterated city.
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Perhaps this is because, as handlers of demining dogs have observed over the years, the females tend to be much more slow and cautious in the field.
But even if prices do move, spending patterns may remain much the same for a while, because consumers tend to be slow to adjust their spending in response to price changes.
One might have thought that there was no innovative thinking to be had in the food category in general, a pretty slow-growth arena.
Scientists warn, however, that this will be a slow mission - Curiosity is in no hurry.
This approach, as well as ECTCM, can be used only in people with slow, steady heartbeats.
This time, the US will be impacted by a slow-down in Europe, but the direct exposure is much more limited.
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At least there would be no more waiting in a slow-moving line to get 30 seconds in front a celebrity author.
Yet enterprise can be slow to adopt an outside-in view of things because it goes against the grain of traditional systems planning.
Wie, who was put on the clock for slow play, will be in the penultimate group in the final round, ahead of Stupples and Pressel.
This fitted the prediction that the downscaling slow-waves would be strongest in those parts of the brain where the most changes had taken place during the day.
Research chief Michael Mussa told a press conference that further interest rate rises were likely to be needed in the US to slow economic growth to a sustainable level.
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